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Index III
Glossary of technical terms in Arabic, Malay (M), Latin (L) and Greek (G)
‘adl: justice
Alam al-shahadah: the world of sense and sensible experience, the visible
world
‘amm: general
Anniyah: wujud:existence
Aqanim: hypostases
‘aql: reason
‘aqli: intellectual
‘arid: accidental
Ashkas: individuals
Asma: names
Badan: body
Baqiyah: to subsist
Basar: sight
Dhati: essential
Dhihnan: mentally
Didd: contrary
Dijadikan (M): created: makhluq
Din: religion
Falsafah:philosophy
Fan:perishing
Fana: annihilation
Faqr:poverty
Fard:single
Fasad: corruption
Fasl:difference,differentia
Fiqdan:losing
Ghaflah:headlessness
Gharizi: innate
Ghayran:different
Hadith:temporally originated
Hadrah: presence
Al-hadrah al- ‘ilmiyyah: intelligible presence: the forms of the known as present
to God in His consciousness or knowledgeable
Halah:state of being
Halik: perishing
Haliyy:subjective state
Haqa’iq: realities
Haqq al-yaqin
Haqiqah: reality
Haris: care
Al-hayat: p.
Hikmah: wisdom
Hissi: sensible
Hulul: incarnation
Al-huruf al-aliyat, the Lofty Letters, the potentialities dwelling in the Divine
consciousness
Iftiraq: seperation
Ilahiyyah: divinity
‘illah: cause
Iman: the becoming true to the trust by which God has confided in one, not by
profession of belief with the tongue only, without the assent of the heart
Imkan: contingency
Al-insan: man
Insaniyyah: hummanity
Istihalah:impossibility
Ithnayniyyah: duality
Itlaq: absoluteness
Ittihad: union
Ittisal: union
Al-jabr: determinism
Jahil:ignorant
Ja’iz: possible
Jamal:beauty
Jasad: body
Jawaz: possibility
Jawhar: substance
Jawhariyyah: substantial
Jinn: genie
Jism: body
Al-juz’: the part
Ka’in:isness
Kalam: dialectic
Kamil, perfect
Kashf: unveiling
Al-kathrah: multiplicity
Al-kawakib:planets (stars)
Kawn: coming-into-being
Kayf: quality
Kharijan: extra-mentally
Khass: particular
Khawass: properties
Khayali: imaginary
Khitab, discrimination
Kufr, unbelief
Kulli: universal
Lahut: divinity
Libas: clothing
Ma bihi al-shay’ huwa al-shay’: that by which the thing is that thing
al-maddah: matter
Mafhum: a concept
Mafqud: lost-to-existence
Mahd: pure-absolutely
Majazi: metaphorical
Makhlutah: mixed
Al-ma’iyyah: withness
Ma‘na: meaning
Mantiq: logic
Maqam:station (spiritual)
Maqulat: categories
Mashhad: spectacle
Matbu: followed
Mathal, like
Mawahib al-suwar: Giver of Forms I.e the Active Intelligence (al ‘aql al-fa ‘‘al)
Mithaq: convenant
Mu’ayyan: determined-individuated
Mufassal: particularized
Muhakamah; adjudication
Muhaqiq: verifier
Muhkam: strong
Al-muhkamat: verses of the Holy Quran that are clearly established in their
meanings
Al-mukawwan: that which is brought forth into existence (M): yang menjadikan
Muktasab: acquired
Mukhalatah:mixed
Mumtani ‘: impossible
Mumtani ‘at:impossibles
Munazzah: transcendent
Murakkab: composite
Mustahil: impossible
Mustaqill:independent
Mutlaq; absolute
Mutlaqah; absolute indeterminate
Muwafaqah: coinciding
Nabatiyyah: vegetative
Al-naql: Traditional going back to the Holy al-Quran and the Holy Prophet
Nasut: humanity
Naw’:specie,pl.anwa
Nisbah: relation
Nisyan:forgetfulness
Nur:light
Qadim; eternal
Qaduma: to be prior
Qidam:eternity
Al-qiyam: standing (in prayer)
Quwwah: power, (the faculties of the animal and physical souls: al-quwwat)
Al-rahmah: mercy
Al-raja: hope
Raqiqah:subtle manifestation
Raqiqah al-nuzul: subtle manifestation that descends to the heart of the ‘abd,
Ruba’I, quatrain
Rububiyyah:lordship
Sabab:cause
Sababiyyah: causality
Sadir:emanation
Sahw: sobriety
Sama: hearing
Sana: product
Sana’ah:artificial
Sani: maker
Shabihan: similar
Al-shafa’ah: intercession
Shafiq, compassionate
Shay’iyyah: thingness
Shibhi:metaphorical
Shirk: polytheism
Siddiq: veracious
Sifah: quality
Al-ta’aqqul: intellection
Al-taba‘iyyah: consequentialness
Tabut: the chest (in Musa was floated down the Nile)
Tafsir: interpretation
Tahqiq: verification
Tajalliyat: self-manifestations
Al-tanasukh: metempsychosis
Tanazzul: pl. Tanazzulat: the descent of absolute being, tariqah the way , the
Sufi path,
Tasawwuf: Sufism
Tasdiq: to affirm belief and faith in the heart: one of the conditions of iman
Al-ta’aththur:being-effected
Taqyid: limitedness
Tashakhkhus: being-individualized
Tawallud;generation
Tawbah:repentance
Tawfiq:succour
Al-thubut: subsistence
Ula:primordial
‘uqul:intelligences (pure)
Wahdaniyyah: unicity
Wahmi: imaginary
Wajd: ecstasis
Wujub:necessity
Wujud dhihni: mental existence, al-wujud al-dhihni: the world as it exists in the
mind
Wujud fi al-kharij: external existence
Al-zahir fi nafsihi al-muzhir li ghayrihi: in Himself manifest and brings other into
manifestation
Zalalah: darkness
Zamani: temporal
Zandaqah: the dualist; the believer in no religion; the deviator in religion; the
impugner of religion; the believer in the eternity of the world
Zill: shadow
Zulm: injustice
Zulmah: darkness